The contest is a simple one – post in the comments section to this entry who you think the two finalists will be. Everyone who guesses correctly will be entered into a random drawing, with the winner receiving a bunch of free stuff, including autographed comics courtesy of Comic Book Idol 3’s host, J Torres!!

Edison Culver

Nabeel A.

DanCJ

Going purely on the strength of the pages that were posted in the Snark Freee Corner (I can’t get into all of the websites so it wouldn’t be fair to only look at some of them) I would put Daniel Lafrance first. There are a few canditates for 2nd place, but at a push I’m going to say Warren Leonhardt. Both artists have some really natural looking physical acting from their characters.

avengers63

With the ten pages we’ve seen, my favorite two are Charles Paul Wilson III and Caio Oliveira. In my opinion, they follwed the script the closest while injecting character & personality into the scenes.

C. P. Wilson would be my choice of the two. This is due to art styles. Oliveira’s drawing is nice enough, but isn’t my prefered style. These two in the finals, maybe Torres as a close #3, but Wilson for the win based only this page.

Opinions on the others:

Andrew Huertaand & Wilfredo Torres followed the script, but the art wasn’t very interesting. They can draw well enough, but their panels aren’t well developed.

Daniel Lafrance didn’t follow the script. The last panel was omitted. He did, however, show some relation between the two characters without being cheesy or gratuitous.

Dan McDaid, Jon Reed, Jose Holder, and Warren Leonhardt made the girl’s appearance into a peepshow. Near-nudity for the sake of doing it is never a good choice.

Nicholas Pitarra failed on both counts. He left off the final panel AND had as neat a full-frontal nudity shot as you can get away with. To boot, the girl wasn’t covering herself, she was cupping her breast in an offer to the guy. Very poor choice.